The Age of Windows lasted four centuries (was A simple cuestion abou

> I'm a proponent of artificial illumination -- lights

As were Frank Lloyd Wright and H. G. Wells. From the latter:
http://leonscripts.tripod.com/scripts/THINGSTOCOME.htm

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GIRL: "I like these History Lessons."

The apparatus is showing Lower New York from above--an aeroplane
travelogue.

LITTLE GIRL: "What a funny place New York was--all sticking up and
full of windows."

OLD MAN: "They built houses like that in the old days."

LITTLE GIRL: "Why?"

OLD MAN: "They had no light inside their cities as we have. So they
had to stick the houses up into the day-light--what there was of it.
They had no properly mixed and conditioned air."

He manipulates the knob and shows a similar view of Paris or
Berlin. "Everybody lived half out of doors. And windows of soft
brittle glass everywhere. The Age of Windows lasted four centuries."

The apparatus shows rows of windows, cracked, broken, mended, etc. It
is a brief fantasia on the theme of windows done in the Grierson
style.

OLD MAN: "They never seemed to realise that we could light the
interiors of our houses with sunshine of our own, so that there would
be no need to poke our houses up ever so high into the air."
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